• Nov, 2024: Excited our paper, “Field Trial of a Tablet-based AR System for Intergenerational Connections through Remote Reading“, got DEI Recognition at #CSCW2024!
• Oct, 2024: Guest Lecture at Human Factors Course at CMU (Thanks to the host @Laura Dabbish).
• Oct, 2024: Present our poster work at #UIST2024. Check out our Holoclass project for future VR classrooms and Sensebot for remote embodied communication. See you in Pittsburgh!
• Sept, 2024: Serve as area chair at #CSCW2025 and #CHI2025.
• Aug, 2024: Passed my PhD defense! Grateful for my advisor, committee, collaborators, and all the amazing friends who supported me along the way!
• Jul, 2024:  Talk at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) (Thanks to the host @Danli Wang). See you in Beijing!
• Jun, 2024: Excited our paper, “Is Your Family Ready for VR? Ethical Concerns in Children’s VR Usage,” won Best Paper Honorable Mention at #IDC2024! See more work from our XR for Youth Ethics Consortium!
• Jun, 2024:  Talk at PEACH lab, ETH about my social VR research (Thanks to the host @April Wang). See you in Zürich!
• Jun, 2024:  Guest Lecture at UIUC (Thanks to the host @Kyrie Zhou).
• May, 2024:  Paper presentation at #CHI2024 about the “Contextual Inquiry of Instructor Practices with VR Video”.
• Mar, 2024: Our paper “EK-Chess: Chess Learning System Based on Top-Level Chess Expert Knowledge Graph” accepted for #IJHCI.
• Mar, 2024: Our paper “Interaction Forms of Collaborative VR Video Learning: An Exploratory Study” accepted for #CSCL2024. Thanks to my collaborators @Ishan, @Angie and my advisor @Lana. See you in Buffalo!
• Mar, 2024: Our paper “Is Your Family Ready for VR? Ethical Concerns and Considerations in Children’s VR Usage” accepted for #IDC2024. Thanks to my collaborators @Saba, @Stuti, @Irene and my advisor @Lana. See you in Netherlands!
• Jan, 2024: Join our #CHI2024 workshop on family-centered design ! Paper Deadline is Feb 26.
• Jan, 2024: Our paper “Virtual Reality, Real Pedagogy: A Contextual Inquiry of Instructor Practices with VR Video” accepted for #CHI2024. Thanks to my collaborators @Yu Liu, @Irene Ye Yuan, and advisors @Lana Yarosh, @Feng Qian, @Bo Han.
• Jan, 2024: I will be visiting Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC starting from January 2024. See you in LA!
• Nov, 2023: Talk at the CS Colloquium – Rising Stars in HCI, University of Iowa about my Social AR/VR research on Nov. 18. See you in Iowa!
• Oct, 2023: Talk at TxHCI seminar about my social AR/VR research (Thanks to the host @Jeeeun Kim). Check here for more information.
• Oct, 2023: Excited to host the Special Interest Group (SIG) with my advisor @Lana on “Ethics of Emerging Communication and Collaboration Technologies for Children” at #CSCW2023, Minneapolis!
• Jul, 2023: Talk at UMN CSE REU “Towards an Immersive and Social Learning Experience: Building the Future of Educational AR/VR” (Thanks to the host @Evan Suma Resenberg)
• Jun, 2023: Served as a student volunteer for #IDC2023, Chicago.
• Jun, 2023: Presented two WIP papers at #IDC2023, Chicago.
• May, 2023: Honored to be awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF)! [UMN News]
• May, 2023: Talk at CMU Learn Lab “Towards an Immersive and Social Learning Experience: Building the Future of Educational AR/VR” (Thanks to the host @Kexin Bella Yang)
• April, 2023: Our paper “Socio-technical Opportunities in Long-Distance Communication Between Siblings with a Large Age Difference” received Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2023! Thanks to my advisor @Lana Yarosh and collaborator @Irene Ye Yuan!
• April, 2023: Presented two papers at #CHI2023, Hamburg, Germany
• Apr 15, 2023: Two WIP papers were accepted by IDC 2023.
• Jan 15, 2023: Two first-author papers were accepted by CHI 2023.
• Oct 8, 2022: Our work “Be a Lighting programmer”: Supporting Children Collaborative Learning through Tangible Programming System” was accepted by IJHCI.
• May 3, 2022: Presented our Educational VR work in CHI 2022, New Orleans.
• Feb 10, 2022: Our work “How Will VR Enter University Classrooms? Multi-stakeholders Investigation of VR in Higher Education” was accepted by CHI 2022.
• Aug 20, 2021: Our work “MoMoBot: Social Robots for Remote Communication” got Best Toio Award in UIST’21 SIC.
• June 26, 2021: Present the position paper “Playing for Real: Opportunities of Using AR to Empower the Remote Playing for Distributed Family” in IDC’21 Smart Toys workshop.
• Apr 27, 2020: Our paper “VWorld: an Immersive VR System for Learning Programming” was accepted by IDC 2020.
• Mar 23rd, 2020: Our paper “Another Decade of IDC Research: Examining and Reflecting on Values and Ethics” was accepted by IDC 2020!
• Feb 29th, 2020: Two CHI workshop papers were accepted! See you in Hawaii!
• Dec 29th, 2019: My first book “Training Manual for Computational Thinking” was published by China Youth Publishing House!
• Dec 18th, 2019: Completed my first Ph.D. semester!
• Sep 9th, 2019: Our paper “MazeRobot: A Tangible Embedded System to Help Children Learn Programming” was presented in CHCI 2019!
• Aug 28th, 2019: Luckily join Grouplens family!
• Jun 20th, 2019: Graduated from the Chinese Academy of Science! I have a master degree now!
• Jun 10th, 2019: Our paper “MazeRobot: A Tangible Embedded System to Help Children Learn Programming” was accepted by CHCI 2019!
• Jun 3rd, 2019: Completed my master’s defense!
• April 25th, 2019: Our paper “CoProStory: A Tangible Programming System for Children’s Collaboration” was accepted by CSCL 2019!
• Mar 13th, 2019: Our paper “ARCat: A tangible programming tool for DFS algorithm teaching” was accepted by IDC 2019!